A quotation from Horace
Like the Athenian miser, who was wont
To meet menβs curses with a heroβs front:
βFolks hiss me,β said he, βbut myself I clap
When I tell oβer my treasures on my lap.β
[Ut quidam memoratur Athenis
sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces
sic solitus: βpopulus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.β]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, βQui fit, Maecenas,β l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75284/
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